The Dirtlease staff just returned from a literary tour of Ireland. We read to a packed hall at The Printworks, in Dublin Castle. We mansplained to a writer’s group in Crumlin. We partied at Connor McGregor’s pub. We turned down sexual advances from Eve Hewson. We swam in the snotgreen sea at Forty Foot. When …
Three Pillars is an investment fund that is buying up communities on the west coast and in the southeast. Here is a disquisition that one of their founders posted about park management. Pretty much everything to say on the subject, he says well. Disclosure: I have no connection with Three Pillars Communities, their equity owners, …
The other day, while I was driving to the gym, a guy in an Acura cut me off. I rolled down the window and lifted my palm in a WTF gesture. He rolled down his window and gave me the finger. If we were Greek, I would have given him the moutsa. People who tail …
A friend emailed me yesterday about a new rent control regulation that has been passed for manufactured housing communities in unincorporated areas of Sonoma County. The day before, a maiden aunt sent me an article about Maine’s new right-of-first-refusal law for manufactured housing communities. Frank Rolfe sends articles decrying new instances of the regulation of …
Garrison Keillor was badly done by the Me Too movement. He misreads social cues because he is on the autism spectrum. He touched the back of a woman who worked for him once. She did not understand the gesture. Because of that, he was fired from MPR and put in the same bucket as Harvey …
Liebling said, ‘A girl can sleep with one guy but not be called a trollop. I covered one war but I am labelled a war correspondent’. Ten years ago, Frank Rolfe said, ‘Owning a mobile home park is like owning a Waffle House where the customers are chained to their tables.’ Frank is the fifth-largest …
Cert. denied https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2023/10/02/supreme-court-rejects-ny-rent-law-challenge/
In US tax law, a ‘whipsaw’ effect is said to happen when the government gets it coming and going because two or more taxpayers treat a payment inconsistently. For example, if a buyer of a business allocates a portion of the purchase price to a covenant not to compete but the seller does not allocate …
In 2009, a writer in Slate said that the James McMurtry song Choctaw Bingo should be the new national anthem, because it describes life for the majority of Americans in the post financial downturn gig economy. The music is not much to listen to, but the lyrics are brilliant. In the song, McMurtry (son of …
In the early eighties, the U.S. government didn’t know what to do about bearer bonds. The government hated them because they are a tool for tax evasion. American corporations that donated to political campaigns, by contrast, liked them because they are a good way of raising capital. So in 1982, Congress split the difference by …